Artel House 2009 - Niverville, MB Canada
This is a beautful house we are currently working on. The Reclaimed Urban Elm Flooring you see in the pictures are unfinished but will finished with our popular selling Polyx Hardwax-Oil. This project is expected to wrap up in January 2010...see Gallery
We're proud to be a special part of the much anticipated Winter Games held in Vancouver, BC Canada. Our contemporary Reclaimed Urban Elm will be featured on the sustainable building's decking, soffit, door jambs, and timber bench. As well as our wood product on 6'10" x 16' door, 8' x 3' door, and 8'x 4' 2x3/8" door. We'll keep you update with the Centreplace MB as the project progresses.
View larger image...see Centreplace MB Pavilion
Manitoba will be front and centre to welcome the world and showcase our province at the Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Manitoba's plans for the 2010 Winter Games include the province's pavilion, CentrePlace Manitoba, participation in the Olympic Torch Relay and the Cultural Olympiad.
Made-in-Manitoba Pavilion
Centreplace Manitoba is a 2,560 sq ft, pre-fabricated, sustainable building featuring Manitoba products and technology. Multi-media exhibits, developed in Manitoba, will showcase tourism, business, immigration and sport and highlight our province’s prosperity, opportunity and potential. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be a partner and have a feature exhibit in the pavilion.
CentrePlace Manitoba will be located at the Live City Vancouver – Downtown site (on Georgia Street at Cambie)
We've added our official video page on Youtube! We only have a couple of videos at the moment but we will be adding to it on a regular basis. Click on this link www.youtube.com/woodanchor and add it your favourites!
We're back from another successful green trade show. It was a long trip but well worth it! We flew into Fresno, California to pick up our booth. From there we packed it into a U-haul and made the trek across the dessert! You would think there would be nothing to see but there's actually quite a bit. We'll more than driving across the prairies up in our land. We drove past the wind farms of California which were in full operation! It was a windy drive. Very cool. We made it into Phoenix after ten hours of driving guided by our trust GPS unit.
If you've never been to Phoenix, it's one of the cleanest and nicest cities you'll see in North America. Tuesday was set up day and a three hour opener for the exhibits. Greeenbuild 2009 was extremely tech based with many company exhibits showcasing energy solutions.
This was another region to showcase our Engineered Urban Elm flooring. We're finding that our Elm specific to our region has been an eye-catcher with a lot of positive reaction to our engineered floor. Thanks to all that stopped by our booth and hello to all the new friends we made (past and present). You all helped make our trip exciting and a huge success!
We are grearing up for another trek to the USA! Phoenix Arizona will be hosting this years Greenbuild Conference & Expo's theme of Main Street Green. It's always exciting to see the latest industry developments and showcase what Winnipeg has to offer the "Green Builiding world". We'll keep you posted as we get underway. In then mean time visit the Green Build website by clicking on the links below.
Greenbuild 2009 is heading to the American Southwest, a region with unique environmental and social challenges and opportunities, and the imperative is clear: Green building can and must come home to all people, boosting the quality of life on main streets across the country and around the world. http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/Home.aspx
Former Vice President Al Gore will address thousands of Greenbuild attendees at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, as part of the Greenbuild Opening Keynote & Celebration on the night of Wednesday, Nov. 11.
West Coast Green 2009 San Francisco
Well, a couple of weeks after West Coast Green and we are getting back to normal life! The tradeshow and conference were informative as usual and we met a lot of old friends from the bay area and made some new ones!
We were showcasing our Engineered Urban Elm flooring, which was a huge success! People involved in the green building industry as well as those not involved directly understand what we are trying to accomplish with sustainable products such as this! To have the stability of a engineered floor with the sustainability of a full ¼” (6mm) of solid reclaimed wood and the top surface was an exciting product for many people. Wood Anchor has stayed away from engineered products over the years because we couldn’t figure out why anyone would choose an engineered product when it can’t be refinished down the road. There is no longevity in that.
About a year ago, we partnered with the company that now makes our engineered flooring and discovered that through their years of experience they can produce the kind of sustainable products that we were looking for. These are the kind of wood flooring products that the green building industry has been looking for.
Many people at WCG were excited to find a product like this and we are looking forward to doing even more business in the Bay Area!
Jason Neufeld - Entry Monday October 19, 2009
I flew from SF to DC to look at the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, specifically Team California’s Refract House. Wood Anchor has supplied them with Engineered Urban Elm Flooring for their house and solid elm decking for the exterior patio’s and decks. It was exciting to see the great job they did on designing the house and providing solid solutions to the energy crisis. Overall they took 3rd place which is exciting for them and we congratulate them on a long and fruitful journey.
Click on Refract Gallery to see our pics.
Jason Neufeld - Entry Monday October 19, 2009
Wood Anchor is providing Elm for Centreplace Manitoba at the 2010 Olympics! This is a pavilion set up by the province of Manitoba to showcase the beauty of the province and the products produced here. We are proud to be a part of this exciting project and look forward to being a small part of the 2010 Olympic Games!
SCU+CCA Team California takes 3rd Place in the 2009 Solar Decathlon!
For more info, click on the link below.
http://www.refracthouse.com
Happen to be in Washington? Have a look at our product that we donated as a part of the Refract House.
For more info, click on the link below.
http://www.refracthouse.com
For the full story click here. http://www.gabreport.com/gabreport/2009/09/team-californias-refract-house-starts-2848-mile-trek-to-the-2009-solar-decathlon.html